This collection is an assembly of reprints from various sources. It was copyedited and proofread for quality and consistency. The individual chapters on the web version link to the original articles written by Mr. Lewis and may not match the book version exactly.
Kira Leeb
Roy Romanow
Chapter One - Advocating for Reform
Steven Lewis and Stephen Leeder
Commentary on the Sustainability of Canada's Healthcare System
Steven Lewis
Steven Lewis
Decoding Mazankowski: A Symphony in Three Movements
Steven Lewis and Colleen Maxwell
Regionalization: Making Sense of the Canadian Experience
Steven Lewis and Denise Kouri
After the Sensible Reforms, What? The Next Big Issue in Wait-Time Management
Steven Lewis
Can a Learning-Disabled Nation Learn Healthcare Lessons from Abroad?
Steven Lewis
Extreme Makeover: Can We Achieve Rapid Improvement in Canada's Healthcare System?
Nandita Chaudhuri, Bonnie Brossart, Steven Lewis and Gill White
Afterword: Delivering Quality by Design
Steven Lewis
Chapter Two - The Call for Professional Accountability
Degrees of Separation: Do Higher Credentials Make Healthcare Better?
Steven Lewis
Primary Healthcare: The All-Too-Quiet Revolution in Waiting
Steven Lewis and Jeanette Edwards
Spare the Policy, Spoil the Profession
Steven Lewis
Pay for Performance: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place?
Steven Lewis
A Man for All Sections: Physicians, Heed Thy Hobbes?
Steven Lewis
CMA Emerges Dazed from Cave, Writes Report
Steven Lewis
Steven Lewis
So Many Voices, So Little Voice
Steven Lewis
Chapter Three - Research to Inform Policy
Creating Incentives to Improve Population Health
Steven Lewis
Toward a General Theory of Indifference to Research-Based Evidence
Steven Lewis
How Has Health Services Research Made a Difference?
Steven Lewis
How Research Influences Policy Makers: Still Hazy after All These Years
Steven Lewis
Health Services Research: Rethinking the Quest To Be Useful
Steven Lewis
Steven Lewis
Steven Lewis and Denise Kouri
Chapter Four - The Reactionarian: On Privatization
Courting Trouble: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of Private Health Insurance
Colleen Flood and Steven Lewis
Medicare’s Fate: Are We Fiddlers or Firefighters?
Steven Lewis
Physicians: It’s in Your Court Now
Steven Lewis
Chaoulli, Truly: A Supreme Irony
Steven Lewis
Chapter Four - The Reactionarian: Conflict of Interest
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Pfizer: Sparks Fly Over Recent CIHR Appointment
Steven Lewis
Well I Declare: The Emasculation of Conflict-of-Interest
Steven Lewis
Neoliberalism, Conflict of Interest, and the Governance of Health
Steven Lewis
Chapter Four - The Reactionarian: Drug Pricing in Canada
Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 1: How It All Began
Steven Lewis
Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 2: Did Retail Pharmacy Need Rebates?
Steven Lewis
Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 3: The Soul of the Pharmacy Profession
Steven Lewis
Ontario Generic Drug Wars, Part 4: Lessons for Medicare
Steven Lewis
Chapter Four - The Reactionarian: Making the News
Federal Election 2008: Interview (Mock)
Steven Lewis
The Scary Headlines We Don’t See
Steven Lewis
The Conference Board: Rank Amateurs with an Agenda?
Steven Lewis
Steven Lewis
This Just In: Systems Designed to Fail, Fail
Steven Lewis
A Texas-Sized Spread in Canada (or an Exposé on Healthcare Spending in a Poor US County)
Steven Lewis
Steven Lewis
Danny William’s Ironic Adventure
Steven Lewis
Conclusion
Actually, I’d Rather Write about Baseball
Steven Lewis
Afterword
Terrence Sullivan
More from Steven Lewis
In no particular order and focused on no particular topic.
- Charter Martyr: Why Carolyn Strom’s Fate Matters to Healthcare
- Want Improved Healthcare Performance? Treat Canadian Doctors Like Finnish Teachers
- Behavioural Economics Explains Why Ontario Doctors Are So Livid
- Securing a Bright Health Information Future
- The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness
- Chasing CEO Talent in Healthcare: Is It Really About the Money?
- What Ontarians (and their Auditor General) Should be Asking About Physician Pay
- Wanted: A Christopher Hitchens for Healthcare
- Sense and Sensitivity: Trouble at the Airport, Trouble in Healthcare
- The Ugly Australian
- The Chosen Path (with Jonathan Lomas)
- The Conference Board Answers Steven Lewis (by Anne Golden)
Ever wondered who Steven Lewis is?
Steven Lewis is a health policy and research consultant and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at BC's Simon Fraser University. He recently completed a tenure as Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser. Steven spent seven years as CEO of the Health Services Utilization and Research Commission in Saskatchewan. He has served on various boards and committees, including the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council, the Health Council of Canada, and the editorial boards of multiple journals. His published works cover topics such as reforming and strengthening medicare, improving healthcare quality, primary healthcare, regionalization and integration, and the management of wait times. His advice, counsel and editorial contributions are invaluable assets to Longwoods and its readers. For Steven to write is to live and in this he is indefatigable. His heart and home are in the middle of Canada – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Contact Steven here.